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suspended the brain, oscillating between recovery and death. It 
is in the domain of preventive medicine, however, that we have 
most to expect from veterinary medicines. Here the scientist is 
not only able to indicate the measures necessary for the suppres¬ 
sion of disease, but can get legislative authority for enforcing 
them. From knowledge gained in this department, we shall be 
able to apply the remedies necessary for the prevention of human 
diseases.” 
“ Many of the greatest achievements in physiology, pathology, 
and therapeutics have been gained in the sphere of the veterinary 
physician by students and practitioners of human medicine. The 
more advanced position of human medical science explained this ano¬ 
maly in former times. But now veterinary medicine has emerged 
from the empirical to the scientific stage; and the veterinary pro¬ 
fession will be expected to contribute more and more to the 
knowledge of our science and art. The training of the veteri¬ 
nary practitioner is daily becoming more comprehensive and more 
careful, and the fruits of this are seen in the rapid advances of 
veterinary science, and in the culture of those engaged in veteri¬ 
nary medicine and surgery. Veterinary literature has made enor¬ 
mous progress during the last few years, and the most brilliant 
future may be predicted for it. Now that veterinary medicine 
has been established on a scientific basis, the time has come when 
the bonds that unite the students and practitioners of human and 
veterinary medicine should be knit more closely, and the two 
branches be brought into more intimate relationship. Human 
and veterinary medicine are progressing along the path of knowl¬ 
edge, but they are separated from one another. Fellow-travelers 
along the steep and rugged course, they should advance hand in 
hand, helping each other to surmout the obstacles they will have 
to encounter on the way. Each has much to learn of the other. 
While the objective side of disease is often studied to the greatest 
advantage in animals, the subjective can be studied in man alone. 
It is, therefore, no less necessary for the veterinary physician to 
have a knowledge of disease in man, than it is advantageous for 
the practitioner of human medicine to study diseased processes in 
the lower animals.” 
